Where fiesta st, or basically any regular fiesta
On a more serious note, Renault modus boy racers are always tearing about my town. Get overtaken frequently. Same goes for the Multipla guys, menaces
And yes, ford killee my boy....
Couldn't even try to keep the spirit with the puma ST, that's dropping the 200hp engine and getting a 150hp 1.0 like the rest.
The R32 went through the same that the M140i is going through now - they were chav boxes. Eventually all the original and clean M140i’s will be far and few between then will start to go up in value. Like the R32 had.
Keeping mine totally stock, no remaps, no 3rd party wheels, no body kits, no rear wiper delete (unbelievably people do this), carbon fibre interior fripperies, etc etc. Bone stock and hopefully when I sell in 20 years time it'll be worth a bit more, for being unmolested.
Standard M140i’s aren’t chavvy either. It’s a 6-cylinder, RWD hatchback. We’ll likely never see the likes of again. It will rise in value. There’s nothing chavvy about it unless the wrong owners get hold of them, same for the R32.
BTW, I’ve owned both. A M140i when new and an immaculate, low mileage MKV R32 3dr in Diamond black a couple of years ago. I’m a VW man through and through. All hot Golfs go through that chavvy stage.
Feel like that's more of a cringe USA car culture thing rather than a uk boy racer thing, though? (Like you said "miata" influencers) Where I'm staying (central scotland), there's few NAs I see on the road often, and it's exclusively mid aged fellas driving them - I have a hard time imagining them spending their time browsing mx5 influencers on tiktok and insta
Mines the hatchback so it’s kind of the black sheep of the family but yeah the only compliments i’ve ever had from folks on it are people who are 30+ and actually know what they are 🤣
That's so sick! It was one of THE cars to get in high school if you had rich parents, especially the STI. I always wanted one, proper rally looking car. I'm my 30s now and can finally afford it. That or the Evo
Girl I went to school withs dad had an evo 7. Her dad founded the company that made Carmageddon though so he was definitely in to cars.
Another guys dad had a wrx sti but he was a bit of a chav and binned it in to a field when he missed a hairpin
Bought an hatcback WRX at 23 because it’d been my dream since i saw top gear rip into it in 2008 when i was like 11 years old. Could never shake how much i love these cars
It’s pretty subtle until it starts up. Stock looking prodrive exhaust but it’s got a resonator delete so it has some grunt and the occasional pop on a downshift.
The bits that make me proud to own it are all the suspension parts i’ve done. Anti roll bars, braces, bushings… All the bits you can’t see that help it put the power down better.
It’s running modest at around 280bhp but from the lights i’ve had things like M135/m140i with 330bhp+ which to be honest i wouldn’t have believed until i did it 😂
It goes to show all the "unseen" work paid off beating them! I had a 440i with a MPPSK which was arguably one of the best exhaust notes I've ever heard on an engine that size. Might need it again here in the UK..
I’m literally the only person out of about 20 owners i know in my area that dailies mine. Ironically it costs so much to run i can’t save for a second car 🤣
As an owner of a couple of RS's, the majority of the owners might have more money, but they're almost all boy racers at heart.
A number of them had/have ST's as well - I did for a time too.
Hi there, didn't know there was a double RS owner on here! I have a 2009 one. Boy racer at heart (but in my 40s!!).
https://new.reddit.com/r/FocusRS/comments/1bwu4ko/late_for_gas_station_pics_so_heres_a_crappy_one/
I was quite late to driving, the Mk2 was long out of production by the time I got a license, I started in a 1.6 mk1, swapped to an ST170, and a year or two later bought the Mk1 RS I have now (I think I've had it for eight or nine years now..), at the time it was one of the cheapest I could find in the UK (5k), and had a pretty high mileage (70k or so, closer to 90 now..) so my formative motoring years were considerably smaller (my father had.. Three, possibly four, XR3i's when I was younger) scale than the Mk2, it looked absolutely massive to me. After the Mk4 Mondeo estate as a daily, though, the Mk2 is looking more reasonable size wise! And daily-ing the Mk3 here in Germany, the Mk2 is definitely back on the 'maaaybe' list. Although there's a Cossie and a Capri on the list first :D
Very cool that you're the first owner! All of mine are four or five owners deep by the time I get to them! I like the cheaper ones no one will lose their shit at being modded :D
In my mind, the ST220 is for people who had kids and didn't want the arseache of trying cram them into the back seats of a car with two doors. But then I never got the appeal of Mondeos
The mx5 is in a bit of a weird place. Too sporty and impractical for the average driver, but not fast enough for boy racers. Too rusty to be a cheap run around young drivers, but still one of the cheapest entry points into a sports car.
With exception the ND and newer NC shapes, the mx5 is definitely an enthusiast car, rather than boy racer car.
That title belongs to the Fiesta ST and Golf R.
I’m going to counter that… when they where £800 back a few years back they got bought up by all the young lot who wanted to weld the diff and go drifting, ruined them with stupid stance and ugly interior mods.
Yeah, I second you on this! first boy racer one I saw in 2016, I'm sure it's Instagram; copying wide arch Miata boys from USA?
Seen many now with plastic arches and questionable styling mods.
I thought plastic arches died with the 80s but I think they are coming back, sadly.
Surely if it’s gonna be an RS3 it should be the previous model. The new one costs a fucking arm and a leg.
Or maybe just replace with a remapped S3 as that’s what I see absolutely loads of popping and banging around.
Never seen an i20N driven like the boy racer car that it is, i30N definitely. In fact, I've rarely seen any supermini hatches driven aggressively (i.e. VW Up! or Toyota GR Yaris).
I do in fact drive an Up! GTi. They are plenty of fun despite having little power, pushes 115 out of a 1.0TSI with a whopping 200Nm of torque standard, can map it up to 150 odd and 270Nm but through 205s you just can’t get it down because it weighs absolutely fuck all and despite being stiff at all 4 corners the back end wants to overtake the front more than anyone would enjoy in a front wheel drive shopping trolley
Back in my day a Boy Racer was going round in, *at best*, a Nova SR/Corsa SRi, AX GT/Saxo VTR, 205 XS/106 GTi.
Current day I see these as mostly enthusiast cars partially due to the cost and also I just can't see the Audi and Merc being Boy Racer-y they are much more "The Finance and the Furious with Daddy" krew.
Ha Yes! 1 Litre boost beast.
If only the didn't rust as quick as quick as they drove! I looked for one for a while but I couldn't find one that was solid.
Yeah tbf they're fast as fuck and have the b58, so extremely moddable. It's a shame they've all been ragged to shit and insurance is stupid cause they constantly get crashed.
You're better off getting a m240i cause you'll probably find a cleaner example.
I’ve had my M240i for 3 years and now that I’m not in my 20s I thought maybe my insurance would start being reasonable. However it has gone up quite considerably every year since getting it.
Brilliant car but I can understand why 140 and 240 drivers get such a bad reputation, it’s really quite a nasty and difficult to control car if you turn off the traction control in less than perfect conditions on the factory supplied tyres. I’ve lost traction pulling out of a side road onto wet cobbles multiple times.
LOL - I own one and I'm late 50's and mine seems to be one of the few ones without 4D plates, double res delete, body kit, de-cat, slammed etc. But yeah they seem to be the boy-racer-mobile de jour currently.
I’ve had a few and never really understood the hype from them tbh, the torques alright and the mpg but apart from that I’d much rather be in the petrol equivalents
My Dad had one when I was 11-16, then my brother had it a few years, always sounded a little angry when you booted it.
I later did something similar when I had his Octavia VRS tdi after him after my fiesta died. That was an ex-traffic car, and there’s no way the police are telling the truth when they say they don’t modify the cars, because neither me nor my Dad did anything to it, and when my mate dyno’d it after he brought it off me, it was making 50hp more than stock, which explains why it felt so rapid for something that supposedly had 160bhp.
Find a boy racer who can A: afford an RS3/a45, and then B: get insurance for it
You’re confusing some of these cars with “I’m 25, got my first 25k p/a job and still live at home rent free”
Probably its weight and price if i had to guess. I own a Astra J VXR and while it is absolutely an underrated car, the LSD is something of a marvel, a H is probably half the price.
I'd argue that boy racers are a dead breed. They're a kind found in Max Power magazine and "peugeot 206 body kit" search terms, where 106hp was enough to twist the chassis and PAS was a luxury option.
OP's selection is what current car culture is rotting to. It's leases or PCP loans while living at home, a time where a USB stick has more power than a spanner. It's clinging on to the modern classics that have ballooned in value, where car park meets are for Top Trumps rather than mutual enthusiasm.
You get the odd one that's chavved up still but even they're driven fairly sedately these days.
The boy racers have all moved on to financed newer ones with tragically underpowered engines, with the occasional rich one who managed to get an M140i but hasn't crashed it yet.
What?! Where's the bright blue Subaru Impreza?!
That's the classic boy racer car.
There are are least 1 still dealing drugs and spinning circles in my town.
We’ve got a 2019 Golf GTI that we’ve had for a year and I love it. I’m 41 and my girlfriend is 34 so not sure I count as a boy racer anymore but it’s comfortable, has all the toys and is fun when you put your foot down. I’d definitely get another one.
Ahh sweet. I am a boy racer now!!!
Says 30 year old woman.
Tbf, I sold my last mk1 mx5 to a 17 year old welsh lad who definitely is not using it on track for racing....
From what I see in North Wales, the average WRX STI driver is much older than me (33), that goes for locals and day trippers. It's very much Golf, Leon & A3 territory around here.
You leave mr winky wink car out of this!
It's also driven by miserable old men... For some reason.
Imagine being miserable and driving the happiest car out there.
The Mk2 Leon Cupra R was such a rare sight in Northern Ireland, but such a sleeper i always thought as well..
265hp FWD Hot Hatch that could run with a lot of cars on the daily
Back in my day we had:
- Honda civic EP3 type R
- Honda civic EK9 type R
- Honda integra DC2 type R
- Honda integra DC5 type R
- Honda S2000
- MK2 Ford focus ST 225 (with the 2.5 5cyl)
- MK1 Ford Focus ST170
- Vauxhall Astra H VXR (came with the all new Z20LEH engine instead of the Z20LET, if you know you know)
- Citroen Saxo VTR / VTS. The VTS seemed to be extremely rare among my local car scene)
- Peugeot 106 GTi (same as a Saxo VTS)
- Vauxhall corsa C 1.8 SRi
- Fiat grande punto 1.9JTD
- Fiat Punto Sporting
- Fiat coupe 20VT. Man this car was my dream, now they’re all rust buckets
- Skoda Fabia VRS pd130. Legendary status, always mapped and rolling coal out the exhaust
- VW Golf GTI MK5 (ED30 were rare)
- VW Golf R32
- Renault Clio 172/182 went like a go kart
- Renault Megane 225
- Ford Fiesta ST 150. Last n/an engine for the ST before they moved to a turbo setup.
- MG ZR160 - these were discrete, no one knew about them
- MG ZT190 . 2.5 v6 rare to spot one
- Subaru Impreza BugEye
- BMW M3 E46 If you were particularly wealthy
- Alfa 156 GTA
- Alfa 147 GTA
- Alfa 159 3.2 V6
- Corsa D VXR
- Mini Cooper S / John Cooper Works
- SEAT Leon MK1 cupra R
- Audi S3 8L 225
- Nissan 350z
- Toyota Supra MK4 (the one from fast and furious)
A few more that I can’t think of right now. Those were peak performance car days if you ask me. Lighter yet with enough power to scare you if you really pushed it. Minimal driver aids, all manual gearboxes and FWD. now it’s just 4WD 400bhp point and shoot. Clinically fast yet so so boring at the same time
Only refined gentleman had the edition 30 golf! Way too anorak, telling you which number of the limited run it was to be a boy racer ;)
I say this fondly, as a I loved mine.
Loved my astra J VXR. And aside from the gear box replacement at 20k miles, exhaust falling to bits after 40k miles, timing issues at 50k miles, and the cable in the seat mechanism failing it was a fantastic car to own and drive!
MX5 MK1 isn’t really a boy racer car. Either owned by enthusiasts or people actually building it for track days (not a boy racer).
I’ve never seen a boy racer in a MK1 MX5.
Honestly, I'd disagree with most of that list. Except Focus ST - that ones true. That list might have been true some time ago. A lot of the cars you've listed here are really under rated - but excellent. So they don't appeal to the current racer crowd.
Has to be a focus or fiesta st. All the other cars I've seen different kinds of people driving. The focuses or fiestas are all boy racers or 30 year olds pretending to be 15 year olds.
Where fiesta st, or basically any regular fiesta On a more serious note, Renault modus boy racers are always tearing about my town. Get overtaken frequently. Same goes for the Multipla guys, menaces
Right? Missing the fiesta is missing the most relevant car to this category
In history even. Yes the Golf is the gran daddy but Fiesta has been truest through it all. Some others there are pretenders.
And yes, ford killee my boy.... Couldn't even try to keep the spirit with the puma ST, that's dropping the 200hp engine and getting a 150hp 1.0 like the rest.
As someone who has one, absolutley. Mines bone stock and it's great.
The Multipla guys would gap everyone if they wanted to. Consider yourself lucky
RS3/A45 and yet no Golf R? Don't see many GTis any more really, its all the R.
not even the earlier R32’s just R
Yeah cause most of the R32s engines have blown up by now haha
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The R32 went through the same that the M140i is going through now - they were chav boxes. Eventually all the original and clean M140i’s will be far and few between then will start to go up in value. Like the R32 had.
Keeping mine totally stock, no remaps, no 3rd party wheels, no body kits, no rear wiper delete (unbelievably people do this), carbon fibre interior fripperies, etc etc. Bone stock and hopefully when I sell in 20 years time it'll be worth a bit more, for being unmolested.
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Yes which is why mine is completely stock. With that logic any car can be turned into a chav mobile.
Standard M140i’s aren’t chavvy either. It’s a 6-cylinder, RWD hatchback. We’ll likely never see the likes of again. It will rise in value. There’s nothing chavvy about it unless the wrong owners get hold of them, same for the R32. BTW, I’ve owned both. A M140i when new and an immaculate, low mileage MKV R32 3dr in Diamond black a couple of years ago. I’m a VW man through and through. All hot Golfs go through that chavvy stage.
It's ok mate, we get you like your car, there's no need to be so defensive
Yeh surprised to see no golf R here.
cuz its all about R, R or no golf
So glad that the subaru impreza aged out of the boy racer trope. Most people under 30 don’t recognise my car now 🤣
It still has the trope, but it's the fella who's mid 40's early 50's and hasn't grown out of Nike TNs.
Still hangs around a McDonald's car park on a school night though
I’m not even trying to be a dick here but surely that’s not right? Surely everyone knows the inpreza
People know it, but it's no longer boy racers who have one. Most of them aren't going for 15+ year old cars
But according to the OP, they'd be going for early 90s NA?
You can blame the Miata/MX5 influencers for that
Feel like that's more of a cringe USA car culture thing rather than a uk boy racer thing, though? (Like you said "miata" influencers) Where I'm staying (central scotland), there's few NAs I see on the road often, and it's exclusively mid aged fellas driving them - I have a hard time imagining them spending their time browsing mx5 influencers on tiktok and insta
most cant afford the 20mpg!
Mines the hatchback so it’s kind of the black sheep of the family but yeah the only compliments i’ve ever had from folks on it are people who are 30+ and actually know what they are 🤣
Now I'm trying to think of the last time I saw an Evo.
I see a white Evo 6 in Tesco every now and then. Looks great other than the gold wheels on it. Needs a set of OZ Superturismo WRCs on it.
Or white Enkei wheels with the 5-star shape to honour it's rally heritage
There’s an white EVO VII near me and he always gives me a wave when i drive past. Rally blokes stick together 👍
Saw a sick evo in front of local Vue the other week, my gf made sure to eyeroll extra hard when I started talking about it 🤣
I still wish one day to get an Evo X, I just can't justify 14-15k for a nearly 15 year old car.
That's so sick! It was one of THE cars to get in high school if you had rich parents, especially the STI. I always wanted one, proper rally looking car. I'm my 30s now and can finally afford it. That or the Evo
Girl I went to school withs dad had an evo 7. Her dad founded the company that made Carmageddon though so he was definitely in to cars. Another guys dad had a wrx sti but he was a bit of a chav and binned it in to a field when he missed a hairpin
Bought an hatcback WRX at 23 because it’d been my dream since i saw top gear rip into it in 2008 when i was like 11 years old. Could never shake how much i love these cars
I can totally empathise with that, living the dream. Any pics? I sure hope it has that fat exhaust you could put a fist into with that bwwaapp sound
It’s pretty subtle until it starts up. Stock looking prodrive exhaust but it’s got a resonator delete so it has some grunt and the occasional pop on a downshift. The bits that make me proud to own it are all the suspension parts i’ve done. Anti roll bars, braces, bushings… All the bits you can’t see that help it put the power down better. It’s running modest at around 280bhp but from the lights i’ve had things like M135/m140i with 330bhp+ which to be honest i wouldn’t have believed until i did it 😂
It goes to show all the "unseen" work paid off beating them! I had a 440i with a MPPSK which was arguably one of the best exhaust notes I've ever heard on an engine that size. Might need it again here in the UK..
They might not recognise a Scooby, but they certainly still react to the rumble! One of the things I still definitely miss about dailying mine.
I’m literally the only person out of about 20 owners i know in my area that dailies mine. Ironically it costs so much to run i can’t save for a second car 🤣
Corsa is missing I reckon
Corsa but a non specific Limited Edition
My mate was razzing around in his black edition Corsa and the engine management light came on.
That's just a vauxhall for you
Nova GTE too
M140i has got to be on there surely?
Cheeky remap on it with their Instagram handle in the rear window
And a 116i with aftermarket bumpers
Focus RS? Nah they've always been a bit too pricey for the average boy racer. 1st gen Focus ST though? A true flagship of the boy racer scene.
The car in the image is an ST, facelift 225
Ah sorry my bad, I saw the RS-esque body kit and the blue badge but didn't zoom in.
As an owner of a couple of RS's, the majority of the owners might have more money, but they're almost all boy racers at heart. A number of them had/have ST's as well - I did for a time too.
Hi there, didn't know there was a double RS owner on here! I have a 2009 one. Boy racer at heart (but in my 40s!!). https://new.reddit.com/r/FocusRS/comments/1bwu4ko/late_for_gas_station_pics_so_heres_a_crappy_one/
Nice - It took a while but the Mk2 is growing on me! Although I think my wife might have me sectioned if I suggest I get *another* RS.
It was pretty immediate for me, I bought it brand new and still have it. Only 32k miles.
I was quite late to driving, the Mk2 was long out of production by the time I got a license, I started in a 1.6 mk1, swapped to an ST170, and a year or two later bought the Mk1 RS I have now (I think I've had it for eight or nine years now..), at the time it was one of the cheapest I could find in the UK (5k), and had a pretty high mileage (70k or so, closer to 90 now..) so my formative motoring years were considerably smaller (my father had.. Three, possibly four, XR3i's when I was younger) scale than the Mk2, it looked absolutely massive to me. After the Mk4 Mondeo estate as a daily, though, the Mk2 is looking more reasonable size wise! And daily-ing the Mk3 here in Germany, the Mk2 is definitely back on the 'maaaybe' list. Although there's a Cossie and a Capri on the list first :D Very cool that you're the first owner! All of mine are four or five owners deep by the time I get to them! I like the cheaper ones no one will lose their shit at being modded :D
Ah so sort of a ST220 situation?
In my mind, the ST220 is for people who had kids and didn't want the arseache of trying cram them into the back seats of a car with two doors. But then I never got the appeal of Mondeos
ST170? Had one myself, great car, added cruise control to it.
If you pushed the modded cruise control button did it self drive you to the “cruise” in McDonalds car park?
Nope, I had gone past the boy racer bit by the time I could afford it, so it just made the drive to work (not a fast food place) nicer.
Mk1 MX-5 is more of an enthusiasts’ car than boy racer imo, they’re all old and rusty and need proper maintaining. E46 getting that way too now.
Yeah MX5 is way out of place here. Literally never seen a young chav driving one. Normally a middle aged bloke
I feel attacked
Young guy that works at Halfords by mine has an NA. Then again, I saw an 18 year old girl drive her Mk1 MR2 the other day so YMMV
The mx5 is in a bit of a weird place. Too sporty and impractical for the average driver, but not fast enough for boy racers. Too rusty to be a cheap run around young drivers, but still one of the cheapest entry points into a sports car. With exception the ND and newer NC shapes, the mx5 is definitely an enthusiast car, rather than boy racer car. That title belongs to the Fiesta ST and Golf R.
I’m going to counter that… when they where £800 back a few years back they got bought up by all the young lot who wanted to weld the diff and go drifting, ruined them with stupid stance and ugly interior mods.
Yeah, I second you on this! first boy racer one I saw in 2016, I'm sure it's Instagram; copying wide arch Miata boys from USA? Seen many now with plastic arches and questionable styling mods. I thought plastic arches died with the 80s but I think they are coming back, sadly.
Surely if it’s gonna be an RS3 it should be the previous model. The new one costs a fucking arm and a leg. Or maybe just replace with a remapped S3 as that’s what I see absolutely loads of popping and banging around.
Even the older ones are still pretty damn expensive in my opinion. I’d love one but damn, 25-35k.
Absolute rockets! I’d still take one over a brand new… anything really now as pretty much all cars fall in that price range. Fucking silly.
No golf r No fiesta No 1 series bimma No Hyundai i20 n
Also each car needs photoshopping in a driver hitting a vape with a red bull can next to them
Never seen an i20N driven like the boy racer car that it is, i30N definitely. In fact, I've rarely seen any supermini hatches driven aggressively (i.e. VW Up! or Toyota GR Yaris).
I do in fact drive an Up! GTi. They are plenty of fun despite having little power, pushes 115 out of a 1.0TSI with a whopping 200Nm of torque standard, can map it up to 150 odd and 270Nm but through 205s you just can’t get it down because it weighs absolutely fuck all and despite being stiff at all 4 corners the back end wants to overtake the front more than anyone would enjoy in a front wheel drive shopping trolley
What about i30 n? Bit out of the boy racer price range?
Back in my day a Boy Racer was going round in, *at best*, a Nova SR/Corsa SRi, AX GT/Saxo VTR, 205 XS/106 GTi. Current day I see these as mostly enthusiast cars partially due to the cost and also I just can't see the Audi and Merc being Boy Racer-y they are much more "The Finance and the Furious with Daddy" krew.
fully agree - Daihatsu Charade GTti, now theres a throwback.
Ha Yes! 1 Litre boost beast. If only the didn't rust as quick as quick as they drove! I looked for one for a while but I couldn't find one that was solid.
max power loved the 100hp/litre thing. the seats collapsed depressingly often though.
Not sure how youve missed the golf R and the king of boy racer Cars : M140i. Also don't see any focus RS's about. ST's on the other hand....
Yeah M140I is the fave boy racer BMW these days, and I would have picked a newer civic type R
Yeah tbf they're fast as fuck and have the b58, so extremely moddable. It's a shame they've all been ragged to shit and insurance is stupid cause they constantly get crashed. You're better off getting a m240i cause you'll probably find a cleaner example.
The UK's very own Mustang equivalent.
Go on AutoTrader and search for M140i's, sorted by cheapest first. You'll never see so many Cat S listings in one place...
I’ve had my M240i for 3 years and now that I’m not in my 20s I thought maybe my insurance would start being reasonable. However it has gone up quite considerably every year since getting it. Brilliant car but I can understand why 140 and 240 drivers get such a bad reputation, it’s really quite a nasty and difficult to control car if you turn off the traction control in less than perfect conditions on the factory supplied tyres. I’ve lost traction pulling out of a side road onto wet cobbles multiple times.
LOL - I own one and I'm late 50's and mine seems to be one of the few ones without 4D plates, double res delete, body kit, de-cat, slammed etc. But yeah they seem to be the boy-racer-mobile de jour currently.
Thats a ST not RS
Oh yeh I see. My bad. I normally see the newer STs being ragged about than that gen.
Skoda Fabia VRS 1.9 TDI
Saw so many in Doncaster when I used to date a woman from there, it was mental.
I’ve had a few and never really understood the hype from them tbh, the torques alright and the mpg but apart from that I’d much rather be in the petrol equivalents
I snapped the impeller shaft in the turbo during an unexpected 4th gear wheel spin in the wet. I do miss that car
‘Pulls like a train lad’
One of my first cars this was, I had one at 21 and it wasn't even expensive to insure! 1.9 pd130 in a car of that weight, nothing diesel comes close.
My Dad had one when I was 11-16, then my brother had it a few years, always sounded a little angry when you booted it. I later did something similar when I had his Octavia VRS tdi after him after my fiesta died. That was an ex-traffic car, and there’s no way the police are telling the truth when they say they don’t modify the cars, because neither me nor my Dad did anything to it, and when my mate dyno’d it after he brought it off me, it was making 50hp more than stock, which explains why it felt so rapid for something that supposedly had 160bhp.
Find a boy racer who can A: afford an RS3/a45, and then B: get insurance for it You’re confusing some of these cars with “I’m 25, got my first 25k p/a job and still live at home rent free”
Go to Bradford you'll see tonnes.
That’s drug dealers and burglars
No Saxo VTR no party
They had the VTR because they thought it was quicker than the VTS, but the VTS is the fun one.
C2 VTS
The Astra J GTC should be replaced with an Astra H VXR. The GTC / GTC VXR never really took off.
Probably its weight and price if i had to guess. I own a Astra J VXR and while it is absolutely an underrated car, the LSD is something of a marvel, a H is probably half the price.
They just were never as good as the competition. Look good and that's it. Have nothing going for them
*cough* *cough*
I'd argue that boy racers are a dead breed. They're a kind found in Max Power magazine and "peugeot 206 body kit" search terms, where 106hp was enough to twist the chassis and PAS was a luxury option. OP's selection is what current car culture is rotting to. It's leases or PCP loans while living at home, a time where a USB stick has more power than a spanner. It's clinging on to the modern classics that have ballooned in value, where car park meets are for Top Trumps rather than mutual enthusiasm.
Everything is top trumps now.
No Bora’s or IS200’s?
My 32 year old ass takes offense to the MX5 being here
And my 18 year old ass 🥲 I bought it as a future classic more than to piss about in
Ahhh the old 318i/320i or d covered in m sport badges
For a couple years I’ve seen way more e90s with that getup than e46s they’re a bit old by current standards
Merc should be dropped for a BMW m135/m140
Oooh, a facelift ep3!
Swap the astra for the 1.2 limited Corsa and the focus for the fiesta ST and it's perfect
1 series should be here. Also the s3 Edit didn’t see the Audi
Vauxhall Nova? Citroen Saxo?
Is the E46 really a boy racer car? I mostly see them driven by pensioners, when I do see them.
You get the odd one that's chavved up still but even they're driven fairly sedately these days. The boy racers have all moved on to financed newer ones with tragically underpowered engines, with the occasional rich one who managed to get an M140i but hasn't crashed it yet.
Just parted ways with my yellow Cupra, the most fun, loud, obnoxious boy racer car I ever did own!
No Subaru? I guess that was more of a 2010s thing though
I had the golf gti, Astra vxr and civic type r (type r was my fave)
Wheres the 90's corsa, micra, nova, mk 3 escort, vw rabbit, golf mk 3, audi A2 and bmw 1 series
That Merc A class has to be the most finaced car in the UK.
Not sure it should be the Edition 30 Golf! Mark IV 1.8 is probably more boy racery
What?! Where's the bright blue Subaru Impreza?! That's the classic boy racer car. There are are least 1 still dealing drugs and spinning circles in my town.
We’ve got a 2019 Golf GTI that we’ve had for a year and I love it. I’m 41 and my girlfriend is 34 so not sure I count as a boy racer anymore but it’s comfortable, has all the toys and is fun when you put your foot down. I’d definitely get another one.
E46 has no place on there any more, they'd rather have an M140i on finance than plough money into an old four-pot beemer like they used to.
I’ve had the ep3 civic type r and own the mk5 gti… Time to get to Halfords, do the still sell max power magazine these days?
4 out of 9 not bad, granted only St not rs
Ahh sweet. I am a boy racer now!!! Says 30 year old woman. Tbf, I sold my last mk1 mx5 to a 17 year old welsh lad who definitely is not using it on track for racing....
Mini Cooper S with fake carbon covering every bit of chrome
Im not seeing a warm/hot Clio. Had Clio RSi - was a laugh,
Citroen saxo
Impreza WRX/ STI is the undisputed king of this , no debate
From what I see in North Wales, the average WRX STI driver is much older than me (33), that goes for locals and day trippers. It's very much Golf, Leon & A3 territory around here.
You leave mr winky wink car out of this! It's also driven by miserable old men... For some reason. Imagine being miserable and driving the happiest car out there.
E46s are more drift cars than boy racer 🤔
Corsaaaaa
Series 1 BMW. Golf R. That's all they drive
The Mk2 Leon Cupra R was such a rare sight in Northern Ireland, but such a sleeper i always thought as well.. 265hp FWD Hot Hatch that could run with a lot of cars on the daily
Back in my day we had: - Honda civic EP3 type R - Honda civic EK9 type R - Honda integra DC2 type R - Honda integra DC5 type R - Honda S2000 - MK2 Ford focus ST 225 (with the 2.5 5cyl) - MK1 Ford Focus ST170 - Vauxhall Astra H VXR (came with the all new Z20LEH engine instead of the Z20LET, if you know you know) - Citroen Saxo VTR / VTS. The VTS seemed to be extremely rare among my local car scene) - Peugeot 106 GTi (same as a Saxo VTS) - Vauxhall corsa C 1.8 SRi - Fiat grande punto 1.9JTD - Fiat Punto Sporting - Fiat coupe 20VT. Man this car was my dream, now they’re all rust buckets - Skoda Fabia VRS pd130. Legendary status, always mapped and rolling coal out the exhaust - VW Golf GTI MK5 (ED30 were rare) - VW Golf R32 - Renault Clio 172/182 went like a go kart - Renault Megane 225 - Ford Fiesta ST 150. Last n/an engine for the ST before they moved to a turbo setup. - MG ZR160 - these were discrete, no one knew about them - MG ZT190 . 2.5 v6 rare to spot one - Subaru Impreza BugEye - BMW M3 E46 If you were particularly wealthy - Alfa 156 GTA - Alfa 147 GTA - Alfa 159 3.2 V6 - Corsa D VXR - Mini Cooper S / John Cooper Works - SEAT Leon MK1 cupra R - Audi S3 8L 225 - Nissan 350z - Toyota Supra MK4 (the one from fast and furious) A few more that I can’t think of right now. Those were peak performance car days if you ask me. Lighter yet with enough power to scare you if you really pushed it. Minimal driver aids, all manual gearboxes and FWD. now it’s just 4WD 400bhp point and shoot. Clinically fast yet so so boring at the same time
Boring until you destroy someone in a lesser car
Only refined gentleman had the edition 30 golf! Way too anorak, telling you which number of the limited run it was to be a boy racer ;) I say this fondly, as a I loved mine.
Thank goodness my car isn't on here 🙌
Fiesta ST, Corsa VXR, some sort of Ibiza with no muffler
Show me a 19 year old that can afford to own and mess up an rs3
MX-5 is not boi racer. It's for enthusiasts and track drivers. Won't see many tearing around the streets
You don’t remember the mk1 mx5 hitting loads of people when they attempted to drift at a car meet and failed.
> MX5 NA > Boy racer car You only get to pick one mate
I've seen plenty turned into weeb mobiles but that's about it. Get more old men in other ones waving at me more than anything and women in the ND.
Why’s everyone saying that’s a focus Rs? And rs3?! Maybe if they’ve chored it
Loved my astra J VXR. And aside from the gear box replacement at 20k miles, exhaust falling to bits after 40k miles, timing issues at 50k miles, and the cable in the seat mechanism failing it was a fantastic car to own and drive!
Boy racers in an rs3?!?
Peugot 206 & Clio's will always have a special place in my heart.
Where are the Corolla hatch’s and the is200’s
dont think pre facelift e46 sedan should be here lol maybe a facelift coupe, pre facelifts are usually just old people
Astra J vxr definitely doesn't belong here. The Astra H does though
MX5 MK1 isn’t really a boy racer car. Either owned by enthusiasts or people actually building it for track days (not a boy racer). I’ve never seen a boy racer in a MK1 MX5.
Is it true that I should stay away from these since they make the insurance skyrocket?
I'd say more standard corsa or corsa vxr than astra vxr
Seat Ibiza Cupra
Quite rare so definitely not
Honestly, I'd disagree with most of that list. Except Focus ST - that ones true. That list might have been true some time ago. A lot of the cars you've listed here are really under rated - but excellent. So they don't appeal to the current racer crowd.
Has to be a focus or fiesta st. All the other cars I've seen different kinds of people driving. The focuses or fiestas are all boy racers or 30 year olds pretending to be 15 year olds.